We.Are.SO.Not.Listening - Democratic Underground

NanceGreggs

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Wed Oct-01-08 03:14 AM
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We.Are.SO.Not.Listening

Edited on Wed Oct-01-08 03:20 AM by NanceGreggs

In the past few weeks, I have foolishly exposed myself to a much stronger dose of MSM newsery than is good for the soul, healthy for the intellect, or safe at any speed.

Like millions of Americans, I have been soaked by the spiel; the pre-debate and post-debate, the projections and reflections, the speculation, the musings, the unintentional comedic stylings, the fair and the balanced, the biased and the broad-stroked, the folded, stapled, spindled and mutilated ravings of the Best Little Political Whoredom in History – aka our beloved media – and have realized what they have obviously not: it’s over, you’re done, go home.

We.Are.SO.Not.Listening.

We are uninterested in whatever it is you have to say, whatever product it is you’re trying to hawk, whatever polls, surveys, or demographics you want to trot out and declare as gospel, and whatever opinions you insist on proffering as though any one of us still gives a flying fuck. Because we don’t.

There are two men currently vying for the Presidency of the United States and, as is increasingly apparent, only one of them is suited to the position. And while you of the so-called mainstream media drone on and on about everything from body language to blinks-per-second, the grown-ups have left the building and are now going about the business of ensuring the election of the right man for the job.

And yet you babble on incessantly, oblivious to the fact that We.Are.So.Not.Listening.

Given how low the bar has been set in the past decade, it is almost impossible to pinpoint the exact minute the political pundits and their enabling media morons jumped the shark. Personally, I’d put my money on the moment someone started selling a startlingly unqualified clueless idiot as a viable option to lead a nation in crisis because she can, after all, see Russia from her house.

This is what you’ve come to, all of you talking hairdos with nothing of value to say, and far too much airtime in which to say it. And the fact that you don’t have the decency to blush from embarrassment as you spew it is indisputable proof, as though any more were needed, that there are among us those who truly do have no shame.

Tens of thousands dead in a war you promoted like a ratings-grabbing miniseries sure to bring in the viewers and the bucks, Constitutional rights torn and tattered while you made a spectacle of shredding the once-noble profession of journalism with your stunning displays of ignorance, a middle-class that all but disappeared while you discussed missing teenagers and the fading careers of the once rich-and-famous, a government that tortured, imprisoned, raped, and plundered with abandon while you busied yourselves with looking the other way.

We.Are.So.Not.Listening.

But please feel free to continue talking to yourselves and/or each other as the case may be, to chatter like gossiping housefraus at the local bingo emporium, to opine on the non-existent neck-and-neck of your imaginary horserace, to tsk-tsk over the numbers, the nickels, and the nuances as though they mattered to anyone beyond the small and irrelevant box that frames your faces and defines your own ineptitude.

We.Are.So.Not.Listening.

We have a country to take back, a fire to be rekindled, a dream to be recaptured, a battle to be won – and, ultimately, a nation to be reshaped into something we can once again take pride in.

And, quite frankly, you are no longer a part of the picture, nor are you relevant to the conversation.

It’s over, you’re done – go home.